Note 1283 — Chapter III · : THE SOLIDARISTS

Anton Menger, of Vienna, is the protagonist of this view. See his book, Das bürgerliche Recht und die besitzlosen Volksklassen (1890). Another of his works, Das Recht auf den vollen Arbeitsertrag, which has been translated into English and contains a valuable preface by Professor Foxwell Menger, maintains that at the basis of the economic order are three fundamental rights which may be compared with the political demands put forward in the Declaration of the Rights of Man. These rights are: (1) the right to the whole produce of labour, (2) the right to work, (3) the right to exist—all of which claims were put forward by Considérant, Louis Blanc, and Proudhon, the French socialists of 1848.

See also Lassalle’s book, Das System der erworbenen Rechte. Mention should also be made of M. Emmanuel Lévy de Lyon, who has published several articles of this kind, especially the pamphlet entitled Capital et Travail.